Allen & Unwin Prize
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Time to Kill Emilla – Sailor Rose
Written by Sailor Rose I’m sure if I dropped myself off the window ledge and down to the garden below, I would break my legs and bleed out onto the… Read more.
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Someplace, Somewhere (Maybe Indiana) – Javia Bordignon
Written by Javia Bordignon I’m in Nebraska. Or Iowa. Or Illinois. I stopped caring a while ago, it doesn’t even really matter anyway. It’s all the same. Rows of half-consumed… Read more.
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My Little Man – Alexander Cameron
Written by Alexander Cameron HE WAS DOING that horrible thing with his throat again—gorp gorp gorp—like an empty bottle of sauce being wrung dry. “Breathe through your nose, Albrecht,” I… Read more.
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Incision – Isabella Ferris-Green
Incision Isabella Ferris-Green The first time it’s with a butter knife, and it’s almost a joke. Jace is cooking dinner and August, bored with TV, is watching them cut the… Read more.
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Amber Lights – Rory Hawkins
Amber Lights Rory Hawkins One of the women ran to my car door, her hands chapelled above her head to keep the rain away. Katie and I had passed the… Read more.
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How to Make Fritters – Jaime Colley
How to Make Fritters Jaime Colle Also available in Voiceworks #129 Static Step One: Cook a Lamb Roast. I am nine. I watch my dad glide the knife under the… Read more.
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Dunes – Suzy Darlington
Dunes Shortlisted for the Allen & Unwin Prize 2022 Suzy Darlington @suzydarlington Grass spilled over the dunes and between them, stretching toward a fringe of Banksias and She-oaks beyond. I… Read more.
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Slowly Sinking In – Rory Hawkins
Slowly Sinking In Shortlisted for the Allen & Unwin Prize 2022 Rory Hawkins @rory_writes_sometimes I close my eyes and listen to gravelled road and primeval trees and nearing night. Their… Read more.
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The Ones Who Stay – Hannah Vesey
The Ones Who Stay Shortlisted for the Allen & Unwin Prize 2022 Hannah Vesey @hannah_vesey_ August 31, 1971 While my sister wives are sleeping, I step over the threshold and… Read more.
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Apollo 11 – Hannah Vesey
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The Flaneur – Thomas Linkins
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white lines – Gabbi Cramond
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